There is a rat!

[Mike Andrew]

Jeff;

ROFL. Glad you survived.

[Mike Andrew]

you guys have me crying!!!!!!!!!!!

[dhoward]

Poke it with a pointy stick.

[JeremyD]

We have many rats in Florida - On the water, fruits trees, tropical environment - do the math.

I have found that the best method of dealing with a semi conscience, poisoned rat - is grab a long handled shovel - swing it well over your head and bring the flat part crashing down upon said varmit. Shovel will make a sound like a "toon skillet" when the right combination of momentum, speed and deflection is met.

"Toon Skillet" is what cartoon characters use when they hit each other in the head with a skillet, usually forming the profile of the character in the body of the skillet. The sound is almost of a large bell, BOING!

Use same long handled shovel to discard of varmit.

[targa911S]

"toon skillet"' !!!! (coffee out of nose)

[scottmandue]

I was once threated by a very large cockroach.

[JavaBrewer]

On my way to dinner in DC I went to retrieve my rental car from the underground parking lot at the Wardman Park Marriott. As I entered the garage I came across the biggest rat I've ever seen - seriously almost cat sized. It just sat there eyeballing me as if saying "What are you looking at?". With just a wind breaker in my hand I double timed it to the car.

[jyl]

Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
If I didn't know better, I would suspect that you are making light of this situation. Ever been charged by a wounded rat? I have; it's no laughing matter. Remember, it's not the size of the rat in the fight, but the size of the fight in the rat.

One day when my boys were little they summoned me to action when they spied a rat on one of the bird feeders. Never one to be shy about such matters, I retrieved my old Sheridan 5mm pump up air rifle and confronted the little freeloader. My shot did not mortally wound him, but it did startle him enough to lose his balance and fall to the ground. Showing a good deal more backbone than I had ever previously witnessed in a rat, the little trooper did not hesitate to press home his charge. With no time to re-pump the trusty Sheridan, I was forced to cast it aside and retrieve my back-up arm; a 5mm pump-up Sheridan pistol. My shot caught him in the top of the head mere inches in front of my foot, stemming his charge at the last possible moment. His momentum carried him forward as he slammed into the toe of my Chuck Taylor, as I, yet unsure of his condition, was already digging for back-up number two, my Swiss Army knife. I immediately dropped to one knee and burried its four inch blade in his back, ensuring that my pint-sized antagonist had truly breathed his last. The kids were impressed. Impressed by his tenacity, and impressed by my steady hand in the face of such immanent danger.

I'm impressed that you could do a headshot with a single shot pistol on a charging rat whose head must have been no bigger than a quarter.

[red-beard]

Originally posted by mikester
I have a pair of .22s.

Does that make them a .44?

Only if you fire them together, Ultraman style

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC

You rock for setting the little guy free.

Question, what are you doing there with your hands in the reflection of that glass????????


hmmmmmmm

LOL

[Rufblackbird]

Originally posted by scottmandue
I was once threated by a very large cockroach.

much easier to deal with than a rat. Go out in the garage and grab a can of brake cleaner. Spray at roach...then wait a minute and it'll flip over and die

or the faster route...hold lighter in front of brake cleaner and spray; make sure the brake cleaner has a "WARNING: EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE" label

[red-beard]

The flame thrower works on a wide variety of pests...

[Rufblackbird]

WD-40 works as well but brake cleaner does not leave any residue

[KNS]

I'm still rolling from Fred's story....

[mikester]

Originally posted by red-beard
Only if you fire them together, Ultraman style

Would I need small japanese people running around my yard in a panic at the same time?

[red-beard]

They're kinda hard to round up in LA. Use whatever ethic group you have at hand...

Hmmmm, LA, uh, Liberals?

[M.D. Holloway]

FredC & Jeff - you guys have me howling! Funny ***** fer sure.

CC - always look'n...

[Jeff Higgins]

Adventure is where you find it, or make it. While my wife just rolls her eyes, my boys and I have had unnending high adventure in the normally mundane world of pest control. Where most folks take the lazy, uninteresting, and definitely non-sporting approaches of setting traps or poison, we pump up our air rifles and pistols for the little stuff and use my "back yard loads" in the .45-70 or .458 for the big game. We've had countless hours of fun in and around the house stalking, setting up blinds, and just generally spending goofy fun father and son time together. Both have now grown into avid sportsmen and are sure to one day make their own wive's eyes roll over some of this silly stuff.

[brittbolen]

One saturday morning i'm carrying my laptop, open, in my palm up hand (aka walking and reading) into the front bedroom of my previous apartment. As I'm walking into the room something falls out of the sky lands on the laptop holding arm and falls to the floor. I scream, as I was not expecting this, and i had precieved it to be something mouselike in nature. My first thought is that my girlfriend had rigged something up to drop one of her very realisting rubber and fur mice on me. Then it hits the floor and runs. I apparently scream again this time waking said GF who now assumes i have somehow dismembered myself. I say a mouse just fell from the sky and she proceeds to close the bedroom door stuff towels under it, tells me to take care of it and goes back to bed!

Needless to say it was quite a lot of fun to corral a tiny hyper mouse into a filefolder box, but i did. I use lots of crap to push him into a corner then flushed him towards the box.

We looked at it for a while thinking how cute it was in the box, then he jumped and just hung from, what I had thought, was a smooth lid. That was enough mouse fun, we let him out far away, by somebody else's apartment.

Later I realized the whole apartment seemed to have many mice (tried traps but just kept find mice crap everywhere, couldn't call the landlord due to contraband rabbit issues) so I bought a house!

Britt